Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week when Romnes, Chicago's center, stole the puck in front of the Detroit net. Said he, after the game: "I looked up to see Paul Thompson sweeping in from the left. I fed him the puck. . . . And did you see him put it in?" Except for the mishap that gave Romnes the puck in time to pass for goal, Detroit's only mishap was a broken nose for Center Ralph Weiland. Hardened by two previous fractures of the same sort, Center Weiland for the second game wore a noseguard while he sat on the bench, took...
...pilots to death in flames near Cheyenne last fortnight (TIME, March 19), Lieut. Richardson somehow got his ship into a nosedive, crashed three miles from the Cheyenne airport, died in flames. Nevertheless, with the weather generally clear, mail flights were resumed on schedule and the first day passed without mishap. Meanwhile even with the Army grounded all week, the Administration's position on the airmail controversy continued to be anything but comfortable. The cavalier treatment accorded Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh by the White House had done President Roosevelt no popular good. Millions of citizens insisted on viewing the differences...
Died. Sir Graeme Thomson, 58, Governor of Ceylon; in Colombo, Ceylon. As Wartime director of British shipping, he moved some 1,000,000 men by sea without mishap, was called "the greatest transport officer since Noah...
...Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still unknown. The Public Health Service has begun field work at Independence, Mo., where 50 cases of encephalitis were last fortnight reported. -ED. "Cheap Bronze Plaque" Sirs: -Harmsworth Cup. . . . There is always one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. . . ." (TIME, Sept. 11). Let TIME'S sport reviewer note on his diary for September next year that the British International Trophy for Motorboats is commonly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, not Harmsworth Cup. The emblem of speed supremacy for motorboats is no more...
...first major mishap had come at Roosevelt Dam; a bystander's careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly...